Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Super Moon Saturday

This past weekend I took part in a couple of workshops hosted by the Blue Mountain Quilters Guild. We had Ionne McCauley come over from Vancouver Island and do a trunk show at our Friday night guild meeting, and then she ran two workshops over the weekend. If you ever get a chance to take a workshop with Ionne you won't be disappointed!

I did the Sliced Circles workshop on Saturday - what a lot of fun! You start by appliqueing circles onto your backgrounds, stack em up, slash 'em and shuffle 'em around. Play with different layouts, stitch 'em back together, and before you know it you have a new quilt top!

and yes, that is a hole in the middle - I've got plans for it!

Since Saturday was the night of the "Super Moon", and these look decidedly moon like, I've decided to call it "Lunar Eclipse". Once quilted, this will be put up on my wall - I'm really liking it! I'm looking forward to having some fun with the quilting on this one.

Sunday's workshop was "Colour for the Terrified Quilter" based on Ionne's book of the same name. Another excellent workshop where we learned the ins and outs of colour, value and intensity. Fascinating stuff, and I learned a lot, which I will hope to be incorporating into my quilts in the very near future.

17 comments:

Love the lunar eclipse! What a neat technique. I am looking forward to see the end result. That colour workshops sure sounded interesting. I can so not choose colours...terrified ;). Thanks for stopping by my place!